The Drummer
There are two plays by this title known in South Africa:
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The Drummer by Joseph Addison (1715)
This is the shortened title for The Drummer, or The Haunted House a comedy by Joseph Addison (1672-1719).
See The Drummer, or The Haunted House
The Drummer by Athol Fugard
The original text
A short one-man improvisation piece with no dialogue, about a tramp rooting through rubbish and finding a drumstick, then a second. With these he starts playing a rhythm on an upturned tin can, rising above the ruckus of the city. A work originally commissioned for the Kentucky Festival of New American Plays and performed by Dierk Toporzysek in 1980.
A version of the text was published in My Children! My Africa! and Selected Short Plays by Wits University Press in 199*.
Performance history in South Africa
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